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SAP has published an official information that SAP AIF (Application Interface Framework) will be available for monitoring a standard “Invoice collaboration” scenario with S/4HANA version 1511 – link .
On Monday 22 FEB 2016, Int4 expert Michal Krawczyk will be presenting a 40 min AIF webinar entitled: “Create and run SAP interfaces easily with SAP AIF”. Webinar will be held in Polish language and if you’re interested, please feel free to join.
Most of the SAP delivered Enterprise Services use the Error and Conflict Handler (ECH) to handle messages which end up with errors. AIF seems to be integrated with ECH but there are many ways to enable this integration. We can either turn off ECH to monitor ECH completely in AIF (ECH will not be used at all) or we can make AIF use ECH error status messages. The second approach is much better in cases where the SAP delivered Enterprise Service used some other ECH functionalities which would stop working if ECH is completely turned off. The only difficulty is that you need two AIF interfaces to monitor a single interface:
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